From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 8 1:35:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mordor.obitus.org (as6-5-7.fa.g.bonet.se [217.215.117.118]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D4F637B405 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 01:35:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mordor (mordor [217.215.117.118]) by mordor.obitus.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g388ZcY23212; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 10:35:38 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sauron@mordor.obitus.org) Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 10:35:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Johan Huldtgren To: Wayne Lubin Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Simple question regarding nat In-Reply-To: <20020408080159.6349.qmail@web14706.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20020408103020.W63091-100000@mordor.obitus.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Wayne Lubin wrote: > Is it possible to run aol instant msg on a machine > which is on a lan that is connected to the internet > via nat? I have no problem doing this, it depends on what rules you have in your firewall I guess, but that can always be circumvented by telling AIM to run on whatever ports you have open in your firewall. (eg At work I set it to run over port 80, this however hampers file-transfers). > Is it possible to run aol instant msg on more than one > machine which are on a lan that is connected to the > internet via nat? Yes, I've done this as well. - Johan _____________________________________________________________ "I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." - [Stephen Roberts] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message